ACCIDENT AND EMERGENCY ATTENDANCE

An individual visit by one PATIENT to an ACCIDENT AND EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT to receive treatment from the accident and emergency service.

Note that the accident and emergency service may be provided by staff from other MAIN SPECIALTIES.

During an ACCIDENT AND EMERGENCY ATTENDANCE the PATIENT may temporarily leave the ACCIDENT AND EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT, e.g. for an X-ray, whilst still under the responsibility of the ACCIDENT AND EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT.

ACCIDENT AND EMERGENCY ATTENDANCES may be as a result of a request from a GENERAL PRACTITIONER for help with diagnosis or treatment.

Attendances at OUT-PATIENT CLINICS run in the ACCIDENT AND EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT should not be recorded as ACCIDENT AND EMERGENCY ATTENDANCES but should be recorded as OUT-PATIENT ATTENDANCE CONSULTANT or CLINIC ATTENDANCE NON-CONSULTANT depending upon the type of OUT-PATIENT CLINIC attended.

Any facility set up to receive and treat emergency cases is regarded as an ACCIDENT AND EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT for this purpose.

ACCIDENT AND EMERGENCY ATTENDANCES include both first and follow-up attendances. A follow-up attendance is any subsequent ACCIDENT AND EMERGENCY ATTENDANCE at the same ACCIDENT AND EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT for the same incident.

Each ACCIDENT AND EMERGENCY ATTENDANCE, which is a first attendance or an unplanned follow-up attendance, should be assigned an A+E STREAM.

This class is also known by these names:

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plural ACCIDENT AND EMERGENCY ATTENDANCES